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Week 8 – Kickstarter project: Pixel Starships

This week in class we were introduced to the idea of using Kickstarter campaigns to fund our game projects. As a part of this we were asked to investigate a current Kickstarter campaign for a game being developed and after searching through the piles of campaigns on the website I decided on SavySoda’s Pixel Starships.

Pixel Starships is “the world’s first total starship management game in an 8bit massive online universe. In Pixel Starships, you command every aspect of your ship from construction to battles in a single persistent world”. Displayed as a beautifully designed 8-bit retro style game this strategy style iPhone or iPad game had me interested merely from the screen grabs provided.

Based in Melbourne Australia SavySoda are looking to reach $20,000 by the time their Kickstarter campaign finishes. Out of all the projects I looked through this is only one that had me seriously interested…